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Damn, I wanted yanks to pay 10k for new iphones
I'm probably overreacting to this, but as someone trapped in this country, living in poverty, already unable to afford anything, I just see this as "I wish things were worse for you". This isn't about a new iphone, I've never had an iPhone or been able to afford one. I don't want one. Comments like this have just been really bothering me. Any time someone bad is happening here, someone will jump in to say basically "oh, good thing I don't live there, haha, americans are so fucked". Like, I get it. America as a country is bad. Or government is evil. The average person here is incredibly stupid and practically frothing at the mouth. But people are so eager to express joy that the bad americans are suffering that they say shit that throws the struggles of those of us trapped here who do not want any of this under the bus
Sorry, but the Global South has totally earned their right to laugh a bit at the US and USians suffering. No one here, as far as I know, is really expressing anything reactionarily anti-proletarian or ecofascist without being called out or having content removed. Most are just poking some fun. What people in the US are going through is what people in the Global South have been going through for decades, if we're not thinking centuries, and in much worse circumstances. And conditions in the US for working people have been better off many times because there were so many people in the Global South who were also stuck and had to deal with their harsh reality back home.
Yeah, there are a lot of working class people getting caught in the crossfire between US hegemony and the Global South. That doesn't mean people can't have some dark humor about the situation and laugh, or some schadenfreude at worst. This feels to me like when White people are upset about PoC saying KKKracKKKer because their family was poor.
But I wanted to say capitalism no iphone